The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States. The lists are split in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.
Fiction
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best seller was The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins with 16 weeks at the top of the list.
| Date | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January 4 | Gray Mountain | John Grisham |
| January 11 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| January 18 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| January 25 | ||
| February 1 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins |
| February 8 | ||
| February 15 | ||
| February 22 | ||
| March 1 | ||
| March 8 | ||
| March 15 | ||
| March 22 | ||
| March 29 | ||
| April 5 | ||
| April 12 | ||
| April 19 | ||
| April 26 | ||
| May 3 | The Liar | Nora Roberts |
| May 10 | Memory Man | David Baldacci |
| May 17 | Gathering Prey | John Sandford |
| May 24 | 14th Deadly Sin | James Patterson |
| May 31 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins |
| June 7 | ||
| June 14 | Radiant Angel | Nelson DeMille |
| June 21 | Finders Keepers | Stephen King |
| June 28 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins |
| July 5 | Grey | E. L. James |
| July 12 | ||
| July 19 | ||
| July 26 | ||
| August 2 | Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee |
| August 9 | ||
| August 16 | ||
| August 23 | Alert | James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge |
| August 30 | Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee |
| September 6 | Friction | Sandra Brown |
| September 13 | X | Sue Grafton |
| September 20 | The Girl in the Spider's Web | David Lagercrantz |
| September 27 | Make Me | Lee Child |
| October 4 | The Martian | Andy Weir |
| October 11 | ||
| October 18 | ||
| October 25 | The Survivor | Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills |
| November 1 | See Me | Nicholas Sparks |
| November 8 | Rogue Lawyer | John Grisham |
| November 15 | ||
| November 22 | The Crossing | Michael Connelly |
| November 29 | Rogue Lawyer | John Grisham |
| December 6 | Tricky Twenty-Two | Janet Evanovich |
| December 13 | Cross Justice | James Patterson |
| December 20 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah |
| December 27 | Rogue Lawyer | John Grisham |
Nonfiction
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best sellers of the year were American Sniper and Killing Reagan.
See also
References
- November 22, 2015 Combined Print & E-Book Fiction. The New York Times. Retrieved November 16, 2015
- "Print and E-book Nonfiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
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